Hans Ulrich Obrist Biography

Hans Ulrich Obrist (b. 1968 Zurich Switzerland) is Co-Director of the Serpentine Galleries London. Prior to this he was the Curator of the Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris. Since his first show “World Soup” (The Kitchen Show) in 1991 he has curated more than 300 shows.
In 2016 Obrist co-curated at the Serpentine Galleries solo shows for Michael Craig-Martin Simon Denny Hilma af Klint and DAS INSTITUT. In 2014 he curated the Swiss Pavilion at the 14th International Architecture Biennale in Venice where he presented Lucius Burckhardt and Cedric Price—A stroll through a fun palace; the building was designed by architects Herzog & de Meuron and the program was developed with artists Liam Gillick Philippe Parreno Tino Sehgal and Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster. Obrist's Art of Handwriting project took place on Instagram and is a protest against the disappearance of handwriting in the digital age.
In 2013 Obrist co-founded with Simon Castets the 89plus a long-term international multi-platform research project conceived as a mapping of the digitally native generation born in or after 1989. In 2011 Obrist received the CCS Bard Award for Curatorial Excellence in 2009 he was made Honorary Fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) and in 2015 he received the International Folkwang Prize for his commitment to the arts. Obrist has lectured internationally at academic and art institutions and is contributing editor to several magazines and journals.

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